GARY STERN is a journalist who has covered religion for a decade for
the Journal News of suburban Westchester, New York. He won the James
O. Supple Award from the Religion Newswriters Association as the
national religion ‘‘writer of the year’’ in 2001, and in 2005 he won the
Templeton Award as National Religion Reporter of the Year. Stern has
written about every major religious group in New York and has covered
many of the top religious figures of the day. He grew up in Brooklyn and
Staten Island and has a master’s degree in journalism from the University
of Missouri. He lives in White Plains, New York.
The death and devastation wrought by the tsunami in South Asia, Hurricane Katrina, the earthquake in Pakistan, the mudslides in the Philippines, the tornadoes in the American Midwest, another earthquake in Indonesia - these are only the most recent "acts of God" to cause people of faith to question God's role in the physical universe. To explore various religious explanations of the tragedies inflicted by nature, the author of this book interviewed 43 prominent religious leaders across the religious spectrum: rabbis, priests, imams, monks, storefront ministers, itinerant holy people, professors, and chaplains; Jews, Roman Catholics, mainline Protestants, evangelical Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Atheists. The author asked each of them probing questions about what their religion teaches and what their faith professes about the presence of tragedy. Some feel that the forces of nature are simply impersonal, and some believe that God is omniscient but not omnipotent. Some claim that nature is ultimately destructive because of Original Sin, some assert that the victims of natural disasters are sinners who deserve to die, and some explain that natural disasters are the result of individual and collective karma. Still others profess that God causes suffering in order to test and purify the victims. The author, an award-winning religion journalist, has extensive experience in this type of analytical journalism, and the result is a work that probes and challenges real people's beliefs about a subject that, unfortunately, touches everyone's life.
發表於2024-11-28
CAN GOD INTERVENE? 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
2004年12月26日,聖誕節後的第二天,印尼發生海嘯。根據聯閤國統計,23萬人喪生,100萬人無傢可歸。宗教是如何解釋這樣的自然災害?作者Gary Stern采訪瞭紐約不同教派的眾多教徒,將他們的代錶性觀點整理成書。作者本人並不隸屬於任何教派,他是一名記者,長期撰寫宗教類的文章...
評分2004年12月26日,聖誕節後的第二天,印尼發生海嘯。根據聯閤國統計,23萬人喪生,100萬人無傢可歸。宗教是如何解釋這樣的自然災害?作者Gary Stern采訪瞭紐約不同教派的眾多教徒,將他們的代錶性觀點整理成書。作者本人並不隸屬於任何教派,他是一名記者,長期撰寫宗教類的文章...
評分2004年12月26日,聖誕節後的第二天,印尼發生海嘯。根據聯閤國統計,23萬人喪生,100萬人無傢可歸。宗教是如何解釋這樣的自然災害?作者Gary Stern采訪瞭紐約不同教派的眾多教徒,將他們的代錶性觀點整理成書。作者本人並不隸屬於任何教派,他是一名記者,長期撰寫宗教類的文章...
評分2004年12月26日,聖誕節後的第二天,印尼發生海嘯。根據聯閤國統計,23萬人喪生,100萬人無傢可歸。宗教是如何解釋這樣的自然災害?作者Gary Stern采訪瞭紐約不同教派的眾多教徒,將他們的代錶性觀點整理成書。作者本人並不隸屬於任何教派,他是一名記者,長期撰寫宗教類的文章...
評分2004年12月26日,聖誕節後的第二天,印尼發生海嘯。根據聯閤國統計,23萬人喪生,100萬人無傢可歸。宗教是如何解釋這樣的自然災害?作者Gary Stern采訪瞭紐約不同教派的眾多教徒,將他們的代錶性觀點整理成書。作者本人並不隸屬於任何教派,他是一名記者,長期撰寫宗教類的文章...
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